Example sentences of "be one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 2 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 3 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 4 | And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 6 | In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders . |
| 7 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 8 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 9 | The showhouse will be one in the middle price bracket . |
| 10 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 11 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |
| 12 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 13 | Of all the countries in southern Africa , Angola is one with the greatest potential . ’ |
| 14 | No matter from which angle they are viewed , these statues reveal that the head and limbs counter-balance each other round a central line running through the body so that each part is one with the whole picture . |
| 15 | How far is one from the next ? ’ |
| 16 | ( You need oblique light to show them ; there is one beneath the bottom right of the letter U of SUN , for example ) . |
| 17 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 18 | You 'll generally find that a serif face , that 's one with the little ticks at the ends of the letters , is much easier to read in large quantities than a sans serif one . |
| 19 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |
| 20 | That 's one from the other direction . |
| 21 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 22 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 23 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 24 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 25 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 26 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 27 | However , because all the cards bearing messages of sympathy had been removed , exactly who had sent flowers other than his immediate family , and whether there was one from the infamous Kray twins , must remain a mystery to all but the Thompsons themselves . |
| 28 | alcove and there was one in the one far corner and sitting on the corner together , they were holding hands going every so often he hears . |